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Film review: Welcome to Curiosity

Kevin Maher

June 8 2018, 12:01am, The Times

★☆☆☆☆Wow. It takes some spectacular errors of judgment to take a film with this many characters, this many guns and this many criminal subplots and make it boring. Yet here we are with not so much a movie as a smorgasbord of offcuts from crime-flick standards.

Filmed in Cornwall, Kent and London, but set in, ahem, Curiosity, it features an escaped psycho-killer, a possible neighbourhood serial killer, a former criminal doing that “one last heist” and TV’s Richard Blackwood as Fordy, a double-crossing criminal pursuing a bag of stolen cash. Oh, and there’s a white-collar nerd who’s about to explore his criminal and homicidal side. And there’s my favourite, a tough detective superintendent, played by the journalist and actress O’ar Pali and lumbered with lines…

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